July 2023: New Kaikōkiri Announced
The J R McKenzie Trust is pleased to announce its most recent funding recipients as follows:
$70k over one year
Hawaiki Kura Charitable Trust (Hawaiki Kura) provides kaupapa Māori social, health, and educational initiatives for the communities of Te Tauihi aimed at promoting cultural confidence, whānau transformation, and empowering positive change. It achieves this by running cultural self-development and wellness wānanga for tāne, wāhine, and rangatahi. This funding will support the Trust to deliver mana-enhancing and strength-based wānanga over 12 months that reteach taonga tuku iho (ancestral gifts), which help to promote oranga or holistic wellbeing in a modern day context.
$197.6k over two years
Hāpai Tūhono (HT) has bought together an experienced creative team to deliver a service by Māori, for Māori. HT is unapologetically committed to Te Tiriti o Waitangi and Tino Rangatiratanga, promoting transformational outcomes for Māori to create life and wealth sovereignty. This funding will support HT to implement its Mana Tūroa programme and establish a Māori Career Development Qualification and Professional Body, with a strong commitment towards empowering rangatahi Māori for a prosperous future.
$80k over two years
Māoriland Charitable Trust (MCT) is committed to creating social, cultural, and economic opportunities for its Ōtaki community. This funding will support MCT to deliver Mana Kai, a strategy to transform how its community accesses, cultivates, preserves, and prepares kai year-round, and implement its community-led action plan for Ōtaki to create a circular economy of food cultivation, hospitality, and waste minimisation.
Communities Against Alcohol Harm Inc
$200k over two years
Communities Against Alcohol Harm Inc (CAAH Inc), a registered charity, works primarily in Auckland, Hamilton and Christchurch but also provides support in communities around the motu. Its goals are to minimise alcohol- and gambling-related harm through advocacy, community action, fostering networks, education, and training. This funding will support CAAH Inc to expand its operations into five new regions, establish networks, provide seminars and educational materials regarding alcohol harm and licensing processes, collect data to support action, and provide advocacy services.
$50k over one year
Thrive Whanganui Trust (TWT) provides start-up and kaupapa-driven enterprise capability building services to help great ideas take-off, grow, and scale. It offers wraparound services to help those who want to start their own business, support their whānau and community, and achieve good in the world. TWT sees its role in the community as one of tautoko, supporting its community in their aspirations. This funding will support TWT to deliver Whakaterea te Moemoea – Be your own Boss, which will enable pakihi Māori in the region to take a business idea from conception to reality.
Campfire Studios
$287.5k over two years
Campfire Studios is a Pasifika-owned business dedicated to amplifying the voices of Māori and Pasifika communities and strengthening intergenerational collaboration to build more connected communities through safe Talanoa. This funding will support the further development and implementation of DigiKōr, a podcasting course developed for youth to connect back to a shared oral history with conversations that give learners more perspective on their cultural identity, and to facilitate these discussions through a digital platform that provides tech approaches for deeper talanoa/kōrero with aiga/whānau. It provides essential skills in digital content creation strengthening relationships with Aiga while developing listening and communication skills. People who complete this course can record, edit, and publish a Digital Kōrero.